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See also:	List of years in the Philippines

This is a list of notable events that happened in thePhilippines in the year 1897.

• Governor-General:
  • Camilo de Polavieja(until April 15)
  • José de Lachambre(April 15 – 23)
  • Fernándo Primo de Rivera(starting April 23)

• Vice President:
  • Mariano Trías(March 22 – November 2)
• Captain General:Artemio Ricarte

• Vice President:
  • Mariano Trías(starting March 22)

• January 4 – Eleven of the fifteen Filipinos who would later be called theFifteen Martyrs of Bicol are executed inBagumbayan.^[1][2]
• January 11 – Thirteen Filipinos who would later be called theThirteen Martyrs of Bagumbayan are executed.^[1][2]

• February 6:
  • TenKatipunan members convicted of subversion are executed inBagumbayan, Manila.^[1]
  • A revolt in parts ofNegros Oriental led by native priests ends in a battle with the defeat of the natives by the Spanish forces.^[1]
• February 13 –Governor-GeneralCamilo de Polavieja begins his campaign with 16,000 Spanish soldiers to regainCavite from Filipino revolutionaries.
• February 17 – Filipino forces win in theBattle of Zapote Bridge at the boundary ofLas Piñas andCavite.^[1]
• February 19 – Spaniards recaptureSilang, Cavite in abattle.^[1]
• February 25 – Spaniards recaptureDasmariñas,Cavite in abattle.^[1]

• March 22 – The two factions of theKatipunan convene at theTejeros Convention to resolve the leadership status in the organization.
• March 23 – Nineteen Filipinos who would later be called theNineteen Martyrs of Aklan are executed inKalibo.^[2]

• May 10 –Andrés Bonifacio and his brotherProcopio Bonifacio are killed inMaragondon,Cavite.

• November 1 – TheRepublic of Biak-na-Bato is established byEmilio Aguinaldo and his fellow revolutionaries, marking the first republic in thePhilippines.

• December 14 – ThePact of Biak-na-Bato is signed between Governor-GeneralFernando Primo de Rivera and Emilio Aguinaldo, aiming to end thePhilippine Revolution.^[3]

As a colony of theSpanish Empire and being predominantlyCatholic, the following were considered holidays:

• January 1 – New Year's Day
• April 15 –Maundy Thursday
• April 16 –Good Friday
• December 25 –Christmas Day

• January 23 –Ildefonso Santos, Filipino poet, sculptor, and writer (d. 1984)
• March 3 –José Romero, Filipino politician (d. 1978)
• June 29 –George J. Willmann, naturalized Filipino missionary from the United States (d. 1977)
• September 11 – Francisca Susano, Filipino supercentenarian (d. 2021)
• December 3 –Elisa Ochoa, first Filipina in theCongress of the Philippines (d. 1978)

• January 4 – Eleven of theFifteen Martyrs of Bicol are executed.^[1][2]
• January 11 – TheThirteen Martyrs of Bagumbayan are executed.^[1][2]
  • José Dizon, one of the founders ofKatipunan^[2]
• February 6 – Members of theKatipunan are executed:^[1]
  • Román Basa (b. 1848)
  • Teodoro Plata (b. 1866)
  • Vicente Molina^[2]
  • Hermenegildo de los Reyes^[2]
  • José Trinidad^[2]
  • Pedro Nicodemus^[2]
  • Feliciano del Rosario^[2]
  • Gervasio Samson^[2]
  • Doroteo Dominguez
  • Apolonio de la Cruz
• February 17 –Edilberto Evangelista, Filipino civil engineer and general (b. 1862)^[1]
• March 23 – TheNineteen Martyrs of Aklan are executed.^[2]
• May 10 –Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino nationalist and revolutionary; one of the founders ofKatipunan (b. 1863)

• Those executed after January 11, 1897:^[2]
  • Hugo Perez
  • Pedro Joson
  • Marcello de los Santos Esguerra
  • Eugenio de los Reyes y Herrera
  • Valentin Matias Lagasca y Cruz

• 1897 in the Philippines

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